Distinguished Professor Stan Grant am
Director, Yindyamarra Nguluway

Distinguished Professor Stan Grant AM is a Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi man and one of Australia’s leading public intellectuals. He has worked as a journalist, presenter, filmmaker and author. Across a distinguished journalism career reporting from more than 80 countries, he has won three Walkley Awards, a Logie Award and four Asia TV Awards.

As a writer, he has published seven books, including the bestselling Talking to My Country, which won the Walkley Book Award. In 2016, he was appointed to the Referendum Council on Indigenous recognition. He was a Professor of Global Affairs at Griffith University in 2018 and is now a Distinguished Professor at Charles Sturt University, where he serves as Director of Yindyamarra - bringing Western knowledge and Indigenous wisdom together in a shared voyage of discovery.

The full-length documentary film The Australian Dream won the 2019 AACTA Award for Best Feature Documentary and the 2019 Walkley Documentary Award. In 2020, he became the International Affairs Analyst at the ABC and the Vice-Chancellor’s Chair of Australian-Indigenous Belonging at Charles Sturt University. From 2022 to 2023, Grant hosted the ABC’s current affairs panel program Q+A.

Stan delivered the 2018 Annual Hawke Lecture, The Uluru Statement and The End of History and also presented Talking To My Country (2016). He has contributed to a number of Hawke Centre panel discussions, including faciltating Aboriginal Children Speak: Criminal Responsibility and the Rights of the Child (2020), and as a panel member for Borders and the Pandemic (2020). 

Yindyamarra team: Professor Stan Grant
Yindyamarra Podcast

PROFESSOR wesley enoch am
deputy vice-chancellor indigenous australians
queensland university of technology (qut)
writer & director

Professor Wesley Enoch AM is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Australians at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Professor Enoch is a proud Quandamooka man and an internationally acclaimed playwright and artistic director with over 35 years of leadership experience across cultural, educational, and governance sectors. 

He has written and directed iconic Indigenous productions The 7 Stages Of Grieving, Black Medea and The Story Of The Miracles At Cookie’s Table. He has directed productions of The Sapphires, Black Diggers, I Am Eora, The Man From Mukinupin, Yibiyung, Parramatta Girls, Black Cockatoo and Appropriate. He was the Artistic Director of the Sydney Festival from 2017 to 2020 and was previously the Artistic Director at Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts and the Ilbijerri Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Theatre Co-operative.

Wesley’s other residencies include Resident Director at Sydney Theatre Company; Associate Artistic Director at Belvoir Street Theatre; the 2002 Australia Council Cite Internationale des Arts Residency in Paris and the Australia Council Artistic Director for the Australian Delegation to the 2008 Festival of Pacific Arts. He was creative consultant, segment director and indigenous consultant for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. Wesley is currently serving as the QUT Indigenous Chair of Creative Industries.

Professor Wesley Enoch AM: QUT Profile